What happened onMarch 5, 2016Saturday Week 9

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The World in 2016 the year everyone hunted Pokémon

Bookmakers offered 5,000 to 1 against Leicester City winning the English league. A £10 bet placed in August would have paid out £50,000 in May.

Life back then

Snapchat was the app teens cared about most, and Instagram copied its stories feature this year. The iPhone 7 arrived without a headphone jack, and people argued about that for months. Netflix released Stranger Things in July, right when it seemed like everyone outside was playing Pokémon Go. AirPods went on sale just before Christmas.

The year in 8 events

• 🕯️Jan 10 David Bowie dies at 69, two days after releasing his final album.
• 🌌Feb 11 Scientists announce they have detected gravitational waves, ripples in space that Einstein predicted a century earlier.
• 🤖Mar 9 Google's AlphaGo beats Go champion Lee Sedol in Seoul in their first game. The computer wins the match 4-1.
• 🗳️Jun 23 The UK votes 52-48 to leave the European Union. The result stuns the world.
• 🏅Aug 5 The Summer Olympics open in Rio de Janeiro, the first Games held in South America. Ten refugees compete as a team of their own.
• ⚾Nov 2 The Chicago Cubs win the World Series for the first time in 108 years.
• 🏛️Nov 8 Donald Trump defeats Hillary Clinton and is elected the 45th US president. The same day, India cancels its two biggest banknotes overnight.
• 🕯️Nov 25 Fidel Castro dies at 90. He led Cuba for nearly 50 years.

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